How "flat" is the .17hmr

[speedystu 0]

Absolut bollox, a round would have to travel about 500miles before its trajectory was needed to change due to the circumference of the planet

No way near 500 miles, but a hell of a lot further than a HMR can shoot.

dahhh yards not miles

[sid the sniper 0]

Dont forget to allow for humidity

[Malt 379]

Absolut bollox, a round would have to travel about 500miles before its trajectory was needed to change due to the circumference of the planet

No way near 500 miles, but a hell of a lot further than a HMR can shoot.

dahhh yards not miles

I bet your Mrs thinks you've got one hell of a length on you! Honestly love, that's 2 ft!

[Born Hunter 17,751]

Sorry mate, but that book ain't gunna help you. Quantum mechanics is about atomic particles and how they bump into eachother.

 

 

Sorry....i hadnt bigged myself up latley.

 

Strictly speaking haw atomic/sub atomic particles 'bump' is condensed matter physics, lol.

[cyclonebri1 8]

Sorry mate, but that book ain't gunna help you. Quantum mechanics is about atomic particles and how they bump into eachother.

 

 

Sorry....i hadnt bigged myself up latley.

 

Strictly speaking haw atomic/sub atomic particles 'bump' is condensed matter physics, lol.

 

I wonder if he realises the world is spinning at about 500 mph? If he shoots with the spin he can claim Mach 3

Edited June 7, 2009 by cyclonebri1

[arveyboy 0]

i've heard the British army is phasing the .17hmr in as their widely accepted sniper rifle. the .338lm just doesnt hold enough energy out past 50,000 yards to be killing with the first shot. the .17hmr is so wind resistant and flys so flat that its getting kills all the way out to 25 miles

Edited June 7, 2009 by arveyboy

[CharlieT 32]

I can't understand why you are all laughing at this chap

 

Now we all know the hmr is a very flat shooting, this fact is undisputed and I have to say that I to have suffered this problem.

When I aim at a rabbit at say 180yds I miss underneath it, however if I allow for the curvature of the earth and aim a little above the rabbit I hit it. Does this not happen to everyone, surely you all take the earths curvature into account when shooting your hmr.

 

My only problem happens when I want to shoot rabbit which is over the horizon and therefore allow enough to compensate for the earths curvature because I can't see the rabbit. However I have come up with a trick that I will pass onto you all. I fix a mirror at the top of a tall tree which enables me to look up into the mirror see the rabbit over the horizon, adjust my aim to allow for the earths curvature and then shoot it.............works perfectly, you should try it.

[hotel2zero 0]

I can't understand why you are all laughing at this chap

 

Now we all know the hmr is a very flat shooting, this fact is undisputed and I have to say that I to have suffered this problem.

When I aim at a rabbit at say 180yds I miss underneath it, however if I allow for the curvature of the earth and aim a little above the rabbit I hit it. Does this not happen to everyone, surely you all take the earths curvature into account when shooting your hmr.

 

My only problem happens when I want to shoot rabbit which is over the horizon and therefore allow enough to compensate for the earths curvature because I can't see the rabbit. However I have come up with a trick that I will pass onto you all. I fix a mirror at the top of a tall tree which enables me to look up into the mirror see the rabbit over the horizon, adjust my aim to allow for the earths curvature and then shoot it.............works perfectly, you should try it.

 

[RicW 67]

I can't understand why you are all laughing at this chap

 

Now we all know the hmr is a very flat shooting, this fact is undisputed and I have to say that I to have suffered this problem.

When I aim at a rabbit at say 180yds I miss underneath it, however if I allow for the curvature of the earth and aim a little above the rabbit I hit it. Does this not happen to everyone, surely you all take the earths curvature into account when shooting your hmr.

 

My only problem happens when I want to shoot rabbit which is over the horizon and therefore allow enough to compensate for the earths curvature because I can't see the rabbit. However I have come up with a trick that I will pass onto you all. I fix a mirror at the top of a tall tree which enables me to look up into the mirror see the rabbit over the horizon, adjust my aim to allow for the earths curvature and then shoot it.............works perfectly, you should try it.

Ric

[humperdingle 0]

Remember, if you're lamping and there's a full moon, you need to compensate for the pull of the moon's gravity on the projectile.

[bustbibs 0]

rember not to aim too high as ive heard of people shooting them selves in the back with the hmr, having over compensated for the curvature of the earth with the bullet completing a full orbit and killing them out right.